CFP: Women in Rock (3/15/07; M/MLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)

full name / name of organization:

Patricia S Rudden

contact email:

prudden@CityTech.Cuny.Edu

"Women in Rock, Pop, Jazz and Rap. What You Know To Be Real: Women’sMusic, Women’s Reality."

Music made by women that originates in their experience of reality iscommon now but was once almost revolutionary. The very idea that womencould publish their own expression, musical or otherwise, in the wideraesthetic marketplace seemed strange not too long ago. What happenswhen women’s reality breaks through the conventions of popular music,and what regard do these artists have for the conventions of “realism”as they sing their own reality? Successful proposals will address someaspect of the encounter between women’s music and women’s reality inlight of the tension between romantic self-expression and socialcomment.

200-250 word proposals by March 15

Patricia S. RuddenEnglish DepartmentNew York City College of Technology/CUNYprudden_at_citytech.cuny.edu.